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Subtitles for Why Is the Swallow's Tail Forked? (1967)

English
October 06 2013 18:03:34
Created by Syilmaz
Pochemu u lastochki hvost rozhkami.1967.en.1.25fps.1381082614.srt ⭳
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All the credit for the translation goes to Syilmaz.

Kazakh and Turkish are related languages; that's how Syilmaz translated The Lame Foal (1968). But Why Is the Swallow's Tail Forked? is more complicated, so he asked a friend to translate the Kazakh into Uzbek, then he translated the Uzbek into Turkish, and the Turkish into the first English version.

And here is the end result!!

(please note: "padishah" is a word that means "monarch of highest rank", something like "emperor")

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1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:04,440 KAZAKH FILM 2 00:00:30,700 --> 00:00:35,880 WHY IS THE SWALLOW'S TAIL FORKED? (based on a Kazakh folk tale) 3 00:00:35,886 --> 00:00:38,937 Direction and Art Direction - A. Haydarov 4 00:00:38,938 --> 00:00:41,231 Composer - N. Tlendiev 5 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:45,700 cameraman S. Artemov sound U. Davletgaliev, Yevangelina Dodonova 6 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:52,940 animators B. Kalistratov, Galina Dussenko, Ye. Sultanbekov, F. Mukanov, Victor Chugunov, E. Beiseitov 7 00:00:53,020 --> 00:00:55,420 Background art: E. Beiseitov, V. Shchukin 8 00:00:55,420 --> 00:00:58,000 voice artist Z. Sharipova text writer Galina Dussenko 9 00:00:59,500 --> 00:01:05,020 Once there lived a Dragon, who had beheaded all padishahs, 10 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:10,610 Carving a den high in the mountains. He lived for many years as padishah. 11 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:17,620 But after these years had gone, old age suddenly arrived, 12 00:01:17,625 --> 00:01:22,549 His powers of old were lost, and the dragon fell sick. 13 00:01:30,329 --> 00:01:35,520 In the last days of his life, The Dragon remembered, 14 00:01:36,234 --> 00:01:40,719 the days he was powerful and strong; the heads he could smash all day long; 15 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:46,460 The times he could gulp in one swallow; The ages he would crush and destroy. 16 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:20,990 The dragon got thinner and thinner, And became short of breath. 17 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,730 His servants were taken aback, discussing, without knowing what to do. 18 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:32,060 In an abyss beyond the cliff, a cunning fox lived. 19 00:02:32,557 --> 00:02:37,010 He had some skills at curing illnesses. 20 00:02:40,020 --> 00:02:44,660 He came to the patient, and took his pulse. 21 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:10,700 "If you find innocent blood, your padishah will recover." He said. 22 00:03:23,663 --> 00:03:28,044 Just try everything, and test it on the bones of this fish. 23 00:03:28,893 --> 00:03:34,057 If the fish is revived by the blood, the Padishah will also recover by it. 24 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,270 There was a mosquito having a needle beak, Blood was the only thing he drank, 25 00:04:15,340 --> 00:04:19,210 He got to work immediately, And set off with the bottle. 26 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:14,030 Is it hard for a mosquito to do evil for a cursed oppressor? 27 00:06:14,625 --> 00:06:19,287 Isn't a baby laying in cradle, The purest living being? 28 00:06:19,688 --> 00:06:24,082 Then he stuck the baby, and the baby started to cry. 29 00:06:29,254 --> 00:06:33,220 He filled the bottle with the baby's blood, and see, the fish revived. 30 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,270 If he would deliver it to the Dragon, the Dragon would recover, 31 00:06:37,275 --> 00:06:41,990 Again he would drown the country in blood, And turn the world Topsy turvy. 32 00:06:43,277 --> 00:06:46,761 But there now was this swallow bird who couldn't bare the cruelty it heard. 33 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:51,000 When hearing the misfortune done, it really shook his heart and he was gone 34 00:06:57,780 --> 00:07:02,330 ... out in search for the mosquito's trail. Took long ways through wilderness and gale. 35 00:07:56,379 --> 00:08:00,031 Before arriving at the dragon's den Before delivering the bottle then, 36 00:08:00,032 --> 00:08:03,964 he would scratch out the eye of the bad, And swallow the mean little gnat. 37 00:09:01,580 --> 00:09:06,050 There is no fight free from danger. The dragon, 38 00:09:06,053 --> 00:09:10,504 had ripped off the swallows tail, Since then it was forked, without fail 39 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:15,720 Thus the delicate swallow, weak and exhausted fellow, 40 00:09:15,725 --> 00:09:20,224 proved his bravery, tall, and saved the lives of all. 41 00:09:21,820 --> 00:09:24,610 THE END